{"id":22192,"date":"2011-03-14T06:19:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22192"},"modified":"2011-03-14T07:29:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:29:21","slug":"tod-swanks-watson-laminates-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22192","title":{"rendered":"Tod Swank&#8217;s Watson Laminates Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/swank_times.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/swank_times.jpg','popup','width=600,height=370,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/swank_times-tm.jpg\" height=\"123\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Swank Times\" \/><\/a>The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-made-in-california-boards-20110308,0,4232398,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> profiles <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumyeto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tum Yeto&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Tod Swank<\/strong> to get the story of how he decided that making boards in the USA was more important than higher margins.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And Swank thinks <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watsonlaminates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watson Laminates<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; track record gives it an advantage over competitors. . . &#8220;Not everyone can get their boards from one of the original laminated skateboard manufacturers in the world. It&#8217;s quality. It&#8217;s craftsmanship. It&#8217;s pride,&#8221; Swank said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for a couple more reasons why you should buy American.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-made-in-california-boards-20110308,0,4232398,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times profiles Tum Yeto&#8217;s Tod Swank to get the story of how he decided that making boards in the USA was more important than higher margins. And Swank thinks Watson Laminates&#8216; track record gives it an advantage over competitors. . . &#8220;Not everyone can get their boards from one of the original laminated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22194,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192\/revisions\/22194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}